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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 8123461" data-attributes="member: 27051">Check out Mage Made Easy, by the guy who wrote M20. It's a collection of advice and hacks to make the game easier to digest and run:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/314476/Mage-Made-Easy-Advice-from-That-Damn-Mage-Guy[/URL]Well worth a look.How Do You Do That breaks down the magic system with examples and systems to use:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/162241/M20-How-Do-You-DO-That[/URL]These are some cheat sheets I gave to my current batch of players (they summarise stuff in M20):Creating Effects: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/qiidwn6nfilgurc/M20%20Cheat%20Sheet.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">M20 Cheat Sheet.pdf</a>Sphere Ranks: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/hndipdgpn96beow/M20%20Sphere%20Summaries.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">M20 Sphere Summaries.pdf</a>This is a general index I found online (can't remember who made it - sorry). It pretty extensive and handy:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.dropbox.com/s/c6ozz5f1kfn4axo/M20_Guide.pdf?dl=0[/URL]Your idea of starting as Orphans and learning through play is the perfect way to go. The M20 Quickstart isn't great at explaining the game - it's more of a collection of rules excerpts. Mage Made Easy is a better place to look. But you should definitely start small, focus on a particular area and theme, and just explore that through play. Set a scope that you and your players are comfortable with and just stick with that. Mage is a huge game, but your chronicle doesn't have to be. My chronicle just turned 25 this August, and we started out with stuff like "save this church from being demolished because it's a Node" and "rescue your brother from the Nephandus" and "accidentally blow up the Technocracy safe house with a tragic gas explosion" and the like. Tight focus works well - the story will grow organically from there.Fire off any questions you have as you go - myself or another Mage fan will be happy to jump in and share our thoughts. They will all be contradictory, of course, but that's Mage <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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